By Edgar Saltus, author of "Mr. Incouls Misadventure," "The
Philosophy of Disenchantment," "Balzac"
In this novel Mr. Saltus has treated a subject hitherto unexplored
in fiction. The scene is Fifth avenue, the plot a surprise. "There
is," some one has said, "as much mud in the upper classes as in the
lower--only in the former it is gilded." This aphorism might serve
as an epigraph to _Tristrem Varick._
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